HexagonSun

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[–] HexagonSun 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that must have been amazing. I only saw it when the BBC broadcast it. But I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a science documentary.

[–] HexagonSun 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)
  • The Farthest (about NASA’s Voyager missions)
  • Hurt Locker Hero / The Deminer (about Fakhir Berwari, a bomb disposal expert who disarmed thousands of landmines in Iraq with just a pocket knife and a pair of wire clippers)
  • The Devil We Know (tells the story of DuPont’s decades-long cover-up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non-stick Teflon products)

All three are very good, very moving documentaries.

[–] HexagonSun 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never been banned from Reddit even temporarily, I just like Lemmy more

[–] HexagonSun 3 points 1 week ago

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

[–] HexagonSun 3 points 1 week ago

If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say

[–] HexagonSun 5 points 1 week ago

Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

[–] HexagonSun 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ghostbusters:

  • Back off man - I’m a scientist 

  • Listen! You smell something?

  • What about the Twinkie?

  • Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

  • Yes it’s true, this man has no dick

  • Ok, so… she’s a dog

  • When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes!

  • Aim for the flat top!

  • Cross the streams

…and much much more

[–] HexagonSun 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

#2

We’ve taken way too many things that don’t need to be plastic and made them plastic

[–] HexagonSun 3 points 2 weeks ago
  • Just Cause 3
  • Fallout 3
  • Fallout 4
  • Train Simulator Classic
  • Gato Roboto
  • Minit
  • Cult Of The Lamb
  • Divinity: Original Sin
[–] HexagonSun 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wanted to give OpenSuse Tumbleweed a go yesterday, but the live USB got stuck at “Loading basic drivers” so I couldn’t even get to being able to install it.

[–] HexagonSun 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Leasehold is basically buying a property without actually truly owning it.

You “buy” a flat, but you’re actually only buying the lease to live there. Not that any single person ever lives long enough for this to happen, but technically if you lived there 99 years it would then revert to belonging to the freeholder and you’d be left with nothing.

In reality, anything below 80 years is seen as problematic and you have to renew the lease before then, at great cost.

If a lease does fall below 80 years, the costs for renewal get increasingly absurd.

[–] HexagonSun 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess nothing’s changed then haha. I have a 2015 LCD Bravia. No longer my main TV, but it’s been awesome.

But the delay between turning it on and being able to switch inputs… Jesus.

 

I’ve recently installed EndeavourOS, and so far, so good. Got an OK setup and managing the basics.

Previously everything I’ve tried has been Debian based.

I know about the Arch Wiki… but was wondering if anyone recommended a relatively concise and easy-to-navigate resource to get a more rounded and complete understanding of Arch terminal commands?

I find it far more easy to learn when I understand where the terms come from - knowing that sudo means “superuser do”, pacman comes from package manager. But the moment I don’t know what yay, -s etc actually mean haha…

Thanks!

 
 

Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!

 

I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984).

Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced.

The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away.

I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha.

A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HexagonSun to c/[email protected]
 

Hi,

After messing around on various distros as a learning experience, I’ve had Debian 12 installed (via installing Spiral Linux) for a few days now on my old Mac.

I noticed today that gparted asks for the root login when launched and that my own user doesn’t have default access to any partitions I create using it.

Is this expected behaviour or have I messed something up?

Thanks!

 

Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HexagonSun to c/[email protected]
 
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